Love blooms wherever people gather, and so the Internet has become the dating center for a global population of romantics. Freed of limitations posed by physical bodies, identities, reputations, or accountability, people are experimenting with new types of relationships.
Connecting in this new world, people are engaging in love and romance at astonishing rates, and often with disregard to their monogamous offline relationships. They and their loved ones are often not sure if they are cheating or justexperimenting. Infidelity on the Internet will help you define cyber-infidelity for yourself. The book will come alive for you with many personal stories and individual conversations that help you understand how people have fallen in love—or what they believe to be love. It will outline their paths to virtual romance and cyber-infidelity. You will hear their experiences, share their joys, cry at their heartbreaks, and somewhere in these stories find answers to your questions.
This book is written as a survival guide. It will examine motivations and benefits, as well as repercussions and long-term effects of experimenting with cyber-infidelity. We will discuss how to understand and deal with the eleven types of virtual lovers, and we will reveal their motivations. Some people are sincere, some are harmless, and some are dangerous. Quizzes will help you decide if one’s behavior has slipped into cyber-sexual compulsivity or cyber-infidelity. We will also provide you with a checklist of signs of a cyber-affair. If your suspicions are correct, we will explain the normal course of emotional reactions to cyber-affairs, and teach you techniques to manage your reactions.
We will discuss how to deal with the discovery of a cyber-affair, how to cope with the emotions that typically follow, and how to recover from its often-devastating blows. After the discovery of cyber-infidelity, decisions must be made about the future of your relationship. Infidelity on the Internet will help you think throughthe important considerations involved with those decisions. We will help you through the path of recovery, by teaching you how to deal with the strong and often troubling reactions experienced by both the faithful and unfaithful partners. We will suggestways in which the unfaithful partner can help restore trust and intimacy in the relationship. Infidelity and the Internet will show you what constitutes an apology for cyber-infidelity, and how to bring closure to these painful episodes. We will also provide you with a number of resources to help you find added support and direction both online and offline.
Infidelity on the Internet is different from other books in that it is a compilation of stories as submitted to the SelfhelpMagazine.com website’s “Cyber-Affairs Essay Contest,” blended with feminist psychological theory and research relevant to romance, relationships, sexuality and infidelity. This combination makes it the first truly interactive book of its kind, written with thehelp of hundreds of experienced web citizens, and crafted by researchers and clinicians.
So, come with us on this journey through virtual romance, real betrayal and recovery from Infidelity and the Internet.
Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. Rona B. Subotnik, MFT Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Infidelity on the Internet: Virtual Relationships and Real Betrayal (Ph.D. Maheu Marlene M., Rona Subotnik)